Maj. Todd Morris treated the case like all the others he's investigated during his 28 years with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office, pursuing every possible lead and sticking to his personal belief that "you make your own breaks."
And he refused to stop following up — even after seven years had passed since Sylviane Finck Lozada disappeared under suspicious circumstances and international politics had brought the investigation almost to a standstill. That perseverance helped achieve a remarkable outcome as Oscar Lozada was arrested this month and accused of killing his wife in 2011 following years of documented domestic abuse, then fleeing from Baton Rouge to Venezuela with their young daughter.